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Washington University in Saint Louis.
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Sharon Louise Gleason
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She is the first female judge to serve in the District of Alaska. Gleason earned a bachelor"s degree in 1979 from Louis. She earned a law degree in 1983 from University of California Davis School of Law.
Gleason worked from 1983 until 1984 as a law clerk to then-Chief Justice Edmond Burke of the Alaska Supreme Court.
From 1984 until 1995, Gleason worked at the law firm Reese, Rice and Volland in Alaska. She then served as a sole legal practitioner from 1995 until 2001, when she was appointed to the Alaska Superior Court.
She then was retained by Alaska voters in 2004 and 2010. On July 31, 2015, Gleason ruled that environmental group Greenpeace United States of America will be fined $2,500 for each hour its activists block a Shell Oil (A Dutch owned corporation) icebreaking ship from leaving Portland by dangling from the Saint Johns Bridge.
The Shell icebreaker is part of the controversial move by Congress to allow a foreign-based corporation to drill in the arctic.
On April 6, 2011, President Obama nominated Gleason to the United States District Court for the District of Alaska to a vacancy that had been created by Judge John West. Sedwick taking senior status in March 2011. The nomination occurred on the recommendation of United States. Senator. Mark Begich. On September 8, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported her nomination to the Senate floor by voice vote.
The United States Senate confirmed Gleason in an 87–8 vote on November 15, 2011.
She received her commission on January 4, 2012.
Membership
She became a member of the Alaska state bar in 1984.
